New GAI Website

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Posted By: Richard Dwyer

http://www.gacard.net/

Of special interest: GAI 10 in 10 service.

Give em another try. I have. New management is great.

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Posted By: Joe D.

I would like a public apology -
specifically for using the excuse that they were making room for a growing Church - when people first asked what was going on.

I still can't get past that.
I think it says something about character when an organization is willing to use a Church as part of an excuse.


Mistakes can be made - and people should be given a second chance....
but an acknowledgment of the mistake and an apology usually comes before the second chance.


jmho.





edit: spelling

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Posted By: Brian

I will try them on Monday.

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Posted By: Mike

For a "new" website it sure wasn't done by a good web programmer. None of the images are optimized at ALL and on my Cable Modem the page took 45 seconds to fully load. Time to try again GAI.

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Posted By: Dave S

Not me...
Michael Goldberg and the SGC crew too classy for me to stray...

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Brian, you read my mind. Monday it is.

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Posted By: leon

edited to try to be nicer....GAI's market acceptance, or lack of, will determine their outcome. I wish them the best.

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Posted By: Steve

I'll pass, one he graded that I bought came back evidence of trimming. If he is so good how did that happen?

Steve

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Posted By: Richard Dwyer

Correct me if I'm wrong, but GAI does things that others won't:

Unopened Card Pack Grading
Waxpack Grading
Autograph Verification
Signed-In-The-Presence authentication
Vintage autograph verification
Global Passport Consignment Services
Value Consultation
T206 Boxes

They also slab my Elementary School cards every year for free. 82 lucky children are getting slabbed cards this year! They have done this for 6 years in a row. I called all the other grading companies 6 years ago, and got the same thing: "Sorry, we don't do charity work". Only GAI came through. Even recently when I called, the other companies were still tightwads.

They have graded all my T206 boxes, and I'd be at a loss if GAI quit doing them. I don't need an apology from them. I'm just happy their still here.

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Posted By: Dave F

Richard,

Do you ever plan on selling any of your cards in the GAI slabs? If so...do you expect to receive the auction prices that SGC and even PSA get? If your sole intent is to slab your cards that you like to keep for as long as your around...terrific. If your intent is to sell them at some point...then it goes further than you believing in GAI, your asking all your buying audience to believe in them enough to receive the same realized auction prices...and I just dont ever see that happening for GAI at this point.

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Posted By: Richard Dwyer

The kids cards are priceless to them.

The majority of my T205 & T206 cards are raw. I don't plan on selling them or slabbing them. I'm concentrating on buying cards and not slabbing. I use GAI to slab my T206 boxes, so that their protected from the elements. No one else does that.

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Posted By: Cobby33

GAI is also the only grading company with the nuts to grade Star basketball.

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Posted By: James Feagin

For the record PSA does grade wax and cello packs.

James

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Posted By: Sean C

It might just be me, but I'd rather change a $100 bill into various quantities of loose change, then take that change to one of those Coinstar machines to change it back into paper currency and lose .09 on the dollar to do so. That to me would be a better waste of money than to send cards into GAI to be entombed.

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Posted By: Fred C

Do they still use that Walmart style packaging?

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Posted By: Marc S.

shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

GAI -- never again.

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Posted By: James Gallo

Their booth at the Reading show a few weeks ago was a Ghost town. The 2 days I was there PSA, SGC, BGS and JSA almost always had someone there submitting or talking etc. GAI, nada.

I talked to a guy that was a HUGE GAI fan and as soon as I mentioned them he got pissed. I think they have just done way too much damage and a quick face lift with some empty promises isn't going to do it.

That they slab you kids cards is great and perhaps you aren't talking to the right people at SGC. I doubt you could find anyone to talk to at PSA but I would try Sean at SGC directly.

James G

Looking for 1915 Cracker Jacks and 1909-11 American Caramel E90-1.

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Posted By: jay wolt

Fred C - Yes!

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Posted By: Steve

The three items I had them authenticate I was pleased with. It's nice about the class pictures too. I will likely still use them for authenticating my severely beat items.

Truth is, they now bear a scarlet letter and this recent snafu is one that will be a struggle to bounce back from. Sad, the competition between four made for better all-around quality.

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Posted By: Rob D.

If you're going to try to sell the merits of GAI by listing all the items they grade that others won't, my advice is to try a different strategy. Just because a company can place a card or wax pack in a slab means little to me if the people they have grading those items don't know squat. (Or if the company is prone to disappearing for days and can't be reached by its customers.)

And if I'm not mistaken, it was but a month or so ago that a GAI-graded tobacco pack was listed on eBay and was judged by a number of people on this board (who I place more confidence in than GAI) to be misidentified by the company.

It's great that GAI grades some cards for you for free. Most of the time you get what you pay for.

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Posted By: Alan U

Their initial problem might be how long it takes to download a submission form (10MB).

-Alan

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Posted By: Cobby33

I don't think anybody is trying to "sell the merits of GAI." At least I'm not, but it is a real issue when no other grading companies grade (or authenticate) certain types of items. But, I suppose people who aren't interested in those items really don't care.

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Posted By: Rob D.

Cobby,

I read this as selling the merits of GAI:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but GAI does things that others won't:

Unopened Card Pack Grading
Waxpack Grading
Autograph Verification
Signed-In-The-Presence authentication
Vintage autograph verification
Global Passport Consignment Services
Value Consultation
T206 Boxes

Maybe I read it wrong.

Oh yeah, this, too:

Give em another try. I have. New management is great.

Again, maybe I'm reading it wrong.

Not a big deal.

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Posted By: Cobby33

Hi Rob-
Sorry- I must have misunderstood your initial post.
No worries- have a good weekend!